The atmosphere inside the Military Affairs Office was extremely depressed, and all the ministers' faces turned pale, and they could not escape. Xiao Letian had done so much for the little emperor, but finally he had to collect interest!

The head of state fortress plan is top secret, and it is called so only within the top Chinese leaders, while the external ones are collectively referred to as a package of concessions!

This plan is actually a secret agreement, which Emperor Tongzhi had signed when he was in Europa, but at that time, he had not taken power, so it could not be implemented!

The entire plan is very large. The head of state paid for the concession of Ningbo, Changzhou, Wuxi, Jiangyin, Jiangning, Tongling, Anqing, Jiujiang... and advanced to Chongqing as far as possible!

There are 16 industrial special zones of all sizes along the Yangtze River!

This is not the end. There are also coastal areas, Weihai, Jiaozhou Bay, Haizhou, Wenzhou, Fuzhou... all the way south to Qiongzhou, Qinzhou, a total of 12 coastal industrial special zones!

This is the first batch of plans. The secret agreement also stipulated that the Chinese people would have priority concession rights in the later period, and these special zones are not isolated, but are allowed to build railways between them!

Of course, it is impossible for the areas where the railway passes through to all Chinese people. Then the Qing court, Chinese people, and overseas capital jointly established the Qing Railway Company to undertake the railway construction contract other than the Beijing-Tianjin Railway!

After all, the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is a facial project of the court, so it must be held in your own hands!

Twenty-eight industrial special zones cover a total area of ​​up to 78,000 square kilometers!

Is the land of 78,000 square kilometers large? Compared with the land of more than 10 million square kilometers in the entire Qing Dynasty, it is of course a small fraction!

Even the land seized by Tsarist Russia is much larger than this number!

But in Xiao Letian's eyes, these twenty-eight special zones are enough, because the area of ​​later generations is only 1,100 square kilometers, and Shenzhen is only 2,000 square kilometers, but the wealth created by these places is at the astronomical level!

What the Chinese people want is wealth, not just to compete for the amount of land. As long as it is enough for industrial production, it is enough to build fortresses in the future, and the relatively small area will be easier to protect!

Of course, these special zones are not for nothing. The Chinese people have to pay 20 million taels of concession silver to the Qing Dynasty every year. The contract is tentatively set for 30 years. The Qing Dynasty made 600 million taels of rent. No matter how you look at this transaction, it will not suffer any loss!

The secret agreement signed by Zaichun not only received the benefits of rent, but also received strong support from the Chinese. In the future, the Chinese will provide a large number of interest-free loans, give a lot of technology, and even provide political protection to Zaichun to ensure that he can successfully settle down!

It seems to be a plan for both sides to benefit, but in the eyes of these old ministers, they seem to see the seductive black and white impermanence!

Weng Tonghe was sad and knelt on the ground with a thunderous thunderous voice, "Your Majesty! No, this is not possible! The cities in the secret agreement are the throats of my Qing Dynasty. Xiao Letian set up a special zone here, and he also had to station troops, control local public security by himself, and use their laws!"

"Isn't this the country in the middle of the country? The Tanggu Special Zone has caused panic in the entire Tianjin area! How many people have been seduced and how many people have been misled? This time, there are 28 more people, how can this be done? The world is going to be in chaos!"

"Master's words are so serious! Why is the world in chaos? The land of tens of millions of square kilometers in the Qing Dynasty is just a fraction of the concession, only more than 70,000 square kilometers, not even a county!"

"Even if we can deceive a small group of people, aren't there more people who can't get in touch with them? The more serious the words, the more serious the words..."

Ying Gui rubbed her hands anxiously, "Your Majesty, I'm not thinking too much, but money is really charming! The people are ignorant and short-sighted, and whoever gives money will get close to whoever they give money!"

"As long as this happens, they will not only forget the goodness of our Qing Dynasty, but also lose etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame. This is the foundation of our country!"

"Think twice, please think twice!"

All other officials expressed their opposition, "Please think twice! This plan is really shocking. Once it is announced to the world, all people will be in chaos!"

"In the past, the country was in a difficult situation, and the war failed and had to concessions and ceded the land. However, they were all remote places on the border. Even the ** Island was just a pier for fishers to fish!"

"What the Chinese people want now is that there are harbors and terminals near the inland on both sides of the Yangtze River. These are the fundamentals of the country and cannot be given to people easily!"

"I will never obey the order. Please think twice!"

Looking at the ministers who were kneeling down, Zaichun laughed instead of anger, and his smile was full of bitterness, "Haha! Don't rent? OK, I promise you not rent!"

"But if we don't rent it, we have to think about the consequences of not renting it!"

"Do I think of the Concession Special Zone? Do I not understand what you said at all? But can I not rent it? What are the consequences of not renting it?"

"Hmph! That is the complete feud between the Chinese and the Qing dynasties. The peace situation over the years has been completely destroyed... Not only the Chinese, but also the Western forces behind the Chinese, will also turn against each other!"

"You really think Prussia likes Xiao Lotte so much, and reached a strategic alliance with him because they like this person? Wrong, Besmai will not get up early without profit!"

"Pesmay is interested in the markets in Asia! It's the market! You don't know anything, because after the end of the Prussian War, the excess capacity must be digested by the market, otherwise a large number of enterprises will go bankrupt and a large number of workers will be unemployed!"

"Their society will be turbulent! But the whole world has been occupied by Britain, France and other countries, and there are no new colonies for Germany!"

"Germany does not have a powerful ocean navy at the moment, so they must rely on the Chinese to help them dump industrial products in the East! Do you understand?"

"Rejecting this treaty means that the Qing Dynasty closed the door to cooperation, which is what the Chinese and many European powers are most reluctant to see!"

"Damn it! The German navy is very weak, but what if they add the Chinese, the local Asian local snake? These two countries... no, no, there will even be Austrian navies. Will they unite to put pressure on our Qing Dynasty?"

"Are we really going to fight? Are we ready?"

Weng Tonghe's beard flew up with anger, "Is there any reason for this? Is there any reason for this? Is there any reason for this? Is there any reason for this? Is it okay to not rent the land in our Qing Dynasty? Do you want to rob it clearly if you don't rent it?"

"Hehe... the law of nature? Where is the law of nature in this world? The law of the weak is the law of nature!"
Chapter completed!